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• The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Reflection, Reality, Israel

  Thomas L. Thompson (2000). “Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written & Archaeological Sources”, p.422, BRILL

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• I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

  Peter Furler

  Book, Purple, Foundation

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• The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law.

  David Chilton

  Christian, Jesus, Law

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• The stranger in ancient Israel did not serve as a judge, although he received all the benefits of living in the land. The political question is this: By what biblical standard is the pagan to be granted the right to bring political sanctions against God's people? We recognize that unbelievers are not to vote in Church elections. Why should they be allowed to vote in civil elections in a covenanted Christian nation? Which judicial standards will they impose? By what other standard than the Bible?

  Gary North

  Christian, Land, Israel

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• The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.

  Gary North

  Christian, Self, Law

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• The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

  Noah

  Book, Stories, Found

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• An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly delineated in the Scriptures. Unless both husband and wife agree, such extra-Biblical standards should not be automatically carried over from one family to another.

  Lou Priolo

  Husband, Wife, Leaving

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• A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.

  Albert Mohler

  Maturity, Men, Church

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, World Religions

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Inspiration, Believe

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• Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

  J. I. Packer

  Teaching, Men, Mind

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• The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Reality, Offering, Views

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Successful

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• In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

  Terrance Hayes

  Flower, Book, Personality

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• You demonstrate biblical love when you take steps to restore a fellow-believer overtaken in sin. This not only encourages a fallen believer to return to his first love of Jesus Christ, but it also gives others involved in the restoration process on-going opportunities to examine the depth of their love to the Lord.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, First Love, Opportunity

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• But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Change, Sorry, Science

  James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.418, Cambridge University Press

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• The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.

  Henry M. Morris

  Stars, Angel, Moon

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• There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Definitions, Contemplative

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• A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

  Jerry Bridges

  Community, Important, Share

  Jerry Bridges (1992). “The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

  Norman Lamm

  Study, Chiefs, Judaism

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

  Robert Winston

  Accepted, Jewish History, Ancestor

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Writing, Forever

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• And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Character, Good Things, Compare

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". collider.com. October 5, 2010.

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• In reality this is the very reverse of what we are told about the biblical God, who opens up freedom for us, who lets us make our own history, who goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures that we concoct.

  Jacques Ellul

  Adventure, Unheard

  "The Subversion of Christianity".

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• The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

  M. H. Abrams

  Enlightenment, Philosopher, Century

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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